Sentences with phrase «cruelty of abandoning animals»

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Abandonment is described as a problem in all Oklahoma counties; if we presume that most do not have a fairy tale ending, it is safe to say that conservatively thousands of animals are at - risk of becoming abandoned and subject to cruelty that are never even counted.

Our Mission is to eliminate cruelty and neglect of abandoned companion animals and to encourage a community atmosphere of education, care, and concern that will strengthen the human / animal bond.

For over 30 years, OLHS» dedicated staff and volunteers have worked to improve the plight of lost, unwanted, abandoned, and homeless animals by providing shelter, care, rescue, adoption services, and foster homes; to investigate incidents of animal cruelty, abandonment, and neglect; and to promote responsible pet ownership by advocating spay / neuter, permanent identification, and the humane and compassionate treatment of animals.

This includes his decades of wildlife rehabilitation as well as the publicized animal cruelty crusades (through the amazing efforts of Georgia House Rabbit Society) to rescue abandoned or abused domestic rabbits.

Pasco County Animal Services strives to save the lives of abandoned animals in our care, protect animals from cruelty, reunite lost pets with their owners, and protect people and pets in our community.

A person commits the offense of cruelty to animals (a Class A misdemeanor) if he or she intentionally or knowingly tortures, maims or grossly overworks an animal; fails unreasonably to provide necessary food, water, care or shelter for an animal in the person's custody; abandons unreasonably an animal in the person's custody; transports or confines an animal in a cruel manner; or inflicts burns, cuts, lacerations, or other injuries or pain.

Impacts of Free - ranging Domestic Cats (Felis catus) on birds in the United States: A review of recent research with conservation and management recommendations (2009) HAHF cites the 2009 paper co-authored by former Smithsonian researcher Nico Dauphiné (who resigned after being found guilty of attempted animal cruelty last year, after rat poison was found in cat food outside her apartment building) as evidence of «the incredible impact of free ranging cats on the bird populations of the U.S.» Among the many flaws in «Impacts of Free - ranging Domestic Cats» was the authors» estimate of «117 to 157 million exotic predators,» which was based on David Jessup's inflated (and, not surprisingly, unattributed) «estimate» of «60 to 100 million feral and abandoned cats.»

«Abandoning caged dogs to die is an inexcusable act of animal cruelty and whoever did this needs to be prosecuted for their crime,» said Patrick Kwan, The HSUS» New York state director.

Since 1957, the Humane Society of St. Thomas has been sheltering abandoned animals, fighting cruelty and neglect and working to create an environment of respect, responsibility and compassion for all animals throughout the territory.

(A search of the Banner - Herald for the first half of 2008 reveals only one possible incident fitting Dauphine's description: «Wilford Bradford Sims, 48, pleaded guilty to 51 counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty... for leaving dozens of cats to fend for themselves in a house he abandoned» in the fall of 2007.

Miami - Dade County Animal Services» mission is to save the lives of abandoned animals in their care, protect animals from cruelty, reunite lost pets with their owners, protect people and pets in their community from health related issues and ensure the public's safety.

How to process (impounded stray, seized, cruelty, abandon, dangerous animals) within 30 days of intake.

«The compassion we extend to these abandoned animals is no less important than our work ending puppy mills, animal fighting, and other large scale cases of animal neglect and cruelty».

Joplin Humane Society: The mission of the Joplin Humane Society is to promote the humane care and protection of all animals, especially those abandoned, neglected and abused; and to prevent cruelty and suffering of all animals.

Rufus Hutcherson Jr., 70, is facing charges of cruelty to animals (two counts); abandoning animals (five counts); failure to restrain a dog; failure to license a dog; and furnishing false information, all misdemeanor charges.

The mission of the San Antonio Humane Society is to serve as an active resource in Bexar County to find homes and provide temporary shelter for abandoned and unwanted animals prevent cruelty to animals, promote the spaying and neutering of dogs and cats and educate the community on responsible animal care, ultimately reducing the number of stray, abused and unwanted animals.

In Singapore, anyone found guilty of animal cruelty, which includes abandoning pets, can be fined up to $ 10,000 or jailed for up to 12 months, or both.

«Pets have been cared for all their lives and will not be able to fend for themselves when abandoned... «AVA will not hesitate to prosecute individuals if there is evidence of animal cruelty.»

The Silicon Valley Animal Control Authority (SVACA) provides the cities of Campbell, Monte Sereno, Mountain View, and Santa Clara with the care of sick, injured, lost and abandoned companion animals, animal cruelty investigations, enforcement of animal laws, education and outreach programs, volunteer and foster programs, and so muchAnimal Control Authority (SVACA) provides the cities of Campbell, Monte Sereno, Mountain View, and Santa Clara with the care of sick, injured, lost and abandoned companion animals, animal cruelty investigations, enforcement of animal laws, education and outreach programs, volunteer and foster programs, and so muchanimal cruelty investigations, enforcement of animal laws, education and outreach programs, volunteer and foster programs, and so muchanimal laws, education and outreach programs, volunteer and foster programs, and so much more.

Attendees were also at the rally at the Capitol in support of 2 other bills pending in the Pennsylvania legislature: H.B. 499 which would increase fines for cruelty to animals and also require owners of dogs seized in these cases to pay the costs of sheltering and care of the animal and failure to do so can mean the animal is deemed abandoned.

In fact, the past several weeks brought a surprising number of adult fosters into our home, most of them abandoned, and I've realized that cruelty to animals takes many forms, including abandonment, and it happens to cat and dogs alike.

Ending animal cruelty and promoting programs such as: «species specific sterilization drugs,» transferring and re-training of abandoned animals into assistive and therapy guides.

PAWS members provide OHS with a much - needed dependable stream of income that we use to care for animals, find loving homes for abandoned and neglected pets, and combat animal cruelty through education and law enforcement.

(5) «Animal shelter» means a facility which is used to house or contain seized, stray, homeless, quarantined, abandoned or unwanted animals and which is under contract with, owned, operated, or maintained by a county, city, town, or other municipality, or by a duly incorporated humane society, animal welfare society, society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, or other nonprofit organization devoted to the welfare, protection, rehabilitation, or humane treatment of anAnimal shelter» means a facility which is used to house or contain seized, stray, homeless, quarantined, abandoned or unwanted animals and which is under contract with, owned, operated, or maintained by a county, city, town, or other municipality, or by a duly incorporated humane society, animal welfare society, society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, or other nonprofit organization devoted to the welfare, protection, rehabilitation, or humane treatment of ananimal welfare society, society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, or other nonprofit organization devoted to the welfare, protection, rehabilitation, or humane treatment of animals.

Whoever overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, cruelly beats, mutilates or kills an animal, or causes or procures an animal to be overdriven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary sustenance, cruelly beaten, mutilated or killed; and whoever uses in a cruel or inhuman manner in a race, game, or contest, or in training therefor, as lure or bait a live animal, except an animal if used as lure or bait in fishing; and whoever, having the charge or custody of an animal, either as owner or otherwise, inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon it, or unnecessarily fails to provide it with proper food, drink, shelter, sanitary environment, or protection from the weather, and whoever, as owner, possessor, or person having the charge or custody of an animal, cruelly drives or works it when unfit for labor, or willfully abandons it, or carries it or causes it to be carried in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner or in a way and manner which might endanger the animal carried thereon, or knowingly and willfully authorizes or permits it to be subjected to unnecessary torture, suffering or cruelty of any kind shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 7 years in state prison or imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than 21/2 years or by a fine of not more than $ 5,000 or by both fine and imprisonment; provided, however, that a second or subsequent offense shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 10 years or by a fine of not more than $ 10,000 or by both such fine and imprisonment.